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The government's former peace negotiator, Camilo Gómez, told a radio station that the former president, Andrés Pastrana, twice asked President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela to meet with guerrilla envoys. His disclosures came a day after Mr. Chávez,...

January 29, 2004, Thursday

With the full support of the Colombian president, the United States has begun what American officials say will be the biggest and most aggressive effort yet to wipe out coca growing. A round of aerial spraying to kill Colombia's mammoth drug...

September 4, 2002, Wednesday

The European Union has agreed to add the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to its blacklist of terrorist organizations when the bloc's foreign ministers meet on Monday, diplomats said. President Andrés Pastrana of Colombia argued hard...

June 14, 2002, Friday

Clara Elsa Galvis, a school administrator, describes herself as ''completely supportive of peace,'' and that is why four years ago she helped vote into office a presidential candidate who had pledged to negotiate with leftist rebels to end Colombia's...

May 26, 2002, Sunday

He has already survived one assassination attempt this year, so Álvaro Uribe's run for the presidency has been especially cautious, even in this war-ravaged country. Public appearances have been minimal, mainly teleconferences with select audiences...

May 19, 2002, Sunday

With elections in Colombia a month away, the Bush administration expects the country's next president to take a harder line in the battle against guerrillas and narcotics traffickers and dedicate more resources to the fight, administration officials...

April 28, 2002, Sunday

President Andrés Pastrana will never agree to rebels' demands for the government to trade their jailed comrades for hostages, Interior Minister Armando Estrada said. His comments came after rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...

April 24, 2002, Wednesday

The Bush administration hopes to use concern over terrorism to build support in Congress for direct aid to the Colombian government to fight leftist rebels, officials say. American policy makers have not decided how deeply they want to plunge into...

March 3, 2002, Sunday

President Andrés Pastrana accused Marxist rebels of ''kidnapping democracy'' when they abducted Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and presidential candidate, over the weekend, but her party said the government shared the blame. Senator Betancourt, a...

February 26, 2002, Tuesday

Just a month ago, there was a breakthrough in troubled peace talks here between the rebels and the government. But in the last week, the rebels hijacked a plane and kidnapped a senator, prompting President Andrés Pastrana to take back a big block of...